Nightlife@Bett (aka Jasi's Revenge)

Last Saturday, Jasi had her chance to revenge for the fucking bed party the week before. I promised that she could decide where to party this evening and she wanted to go out to Bett. Although I had never been there before, I had a bad feeling, because I had heard that lots of "Lans" are hanging around there and mixed music is played (chart music alert! ;). However, I had no choice, so accompanied by Hartmut and a friend we headed towards Stuttgart.

Other than expected, we had no problems entering the club (so the M1 backup plan fell through ;(, although we were three guys and only one girl. This was probably because we arrived far too soon at 10:30 pm. Entrance was 3 bucks for a nearly empty lounge with sofas at the sides and hardly noticeable music. Hehe, Alex, Isa and Etze were right around the corner at Marshall Bar and continually SMSed that it was really good there and Vlado was spinning House music.

But it became surprisingly well. While the lounge filled, the DJ started spinning this kinda mainstream House music, which is played everywhere nowadays and the lounge turned into a club. This whole place was astonishingly endurable, since I already expected Black, RnB or chart music. So I really had fun and definitively enjoyed Bett a lot more than Jasi enjoyed N-Pir.

Later, on our way home, I absolutely confirmed my driving skills: on the way down from the top floor of the parking garage (mainly being busy with searching for some cool track on my MP3 player) suddenly a gate appeared without any machine where to put the ticket. Then I realized that I had taken the way in instead of the way out of the parking garage. So I had to drive backwards to the next floor to get to the damn exit. ;)

Fucking Bed@N-Pir

OMFG! Last week Jule told me about N-Pir being a cool house club and since I haven't been there for years, Robert, Helmut, Nicole and me decided to give it a try this Saturday. I also convinced Jasi and Maren to join us by telling them that there will be (as I assumed) a cool and relaxed house party (we had absolutely no idea ;). After a funny ride on snowy and slippery streets to Stuttgart (including handbreak-turn actions, which only I enjoyed ;) we met Julika and joined the club.

Entrance was 13 bucks, which is relatively expensive. However, we experienced a bizarre atmosphere (or should I say decoration): centered in the middle of the dance floor was a bed where naked gogos were pleasing each other, around the dance floor were cages where nearly-naked gogos were dancing and everywhere else were video screens where divers fetish soft-porn was shown. Relaxed house party, eh? I guess our girls were shocked a bit at least.

While I enjoyed the view (goddamn, nobody had a cell phone handy, which is capable of making photographs), I didn't like the music much. After some house music in the beginning, DJ Pate No. 1 was more and more spinning other styles including electro and experimental stuff. So although it was an okay party, I will stick to M1_The Club as my favourite club in Stuttgart (at least on Saturdays).

Triple America Invasion

Sorry, no posts last week, since I am currently busy learning for my major exam in Distributed Systems, which will be on March, 23rd.

However, Robert had a telephone interview with DaimlerChrysler RTNA in Palo Alto on Monday and guess what, he will accompany us (Christoph and me) to America, starting his internship two weeks later on May 16th. So we can stay, party and travel together, which also raises some serious problems:

1. We don't have to make new friends in America.
2. We are not forced to talk English all the time.

Hopefully we can avoid these problems and don't seclude ourselves by getting to know lots of cool American people and forcing ourselves to talk English all the time, even among us. Maybe every time someone says a German word, he has to pay for a round or something like that. I fear I will be drunk in America all the time! ;)

I will probably be snowboarding in Donnstetten this evening, so stay tuned...

0190-Consulate-please

Today I called a 0190 number, but not to get sexually satisfied by some old and ugly telephone prostitute claiming to be a teen supermodel, but to schedule an appointment for an interview at the U.S. Consulate to get my visa. After the usual "press 1 for English, bla bla" choices and a "this line is sponsored by Arcor" commercial, I had to give all my passport information to the U.S. representative and we scheduled the interview for 9 am on Wednesday, March 30th at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt. The total call took 10 minutes and cost 20 bucks, yippie! ;)

Snowboarding in Lermoos (Part 2)

If you missed the first part, read here.

After checking out on the next day, we were on the slope again at 10 am. We actually just continued what we did the day before, which means racing, freeriding and trying to jump (which improved, see photos below).


Unfortunately, poor Jasi felt extreme pains in her leg already after the first run and wasn't able to ski any longer. So she had to lie in the sun in a canvas chair all day long. Hope it wasn't too boring for her. We took, however, great care of her.

After boarding all the day, having "curry sausage" and fries for lunch and additionally "apple strudel" with "vanilla sauce" in the afternoon, it was time to go home. This time Hartmut was privileged to drive, because Jasi was too tired after lying in the sun all day long! ;) We halted in Merklingen for some McDonald's fastfood (BigMac, miam) and were at home at 9 pm. Then I felt into my bed...

Snowboarding in Lermoos (Part 1)

Wow, what a weekend! Konse, Key, Jasi, Hartmut and me were snowboarding (and skiing respectively, sigh) in Lermoos, Austria, over the last weekend and these two days are definitely among my best boarding days ever: absolutely fantastic weather, black powder slopes and 30 cm deep powder off the slopes.

After having real problems organizing a car last week, Jasi finally offered her (so much loved) Polo. I was privileged to drive, because Jasi didn't get much (any?) sleep the night before. Although otherwise expected (it was carnival weekend), we didn't catch up in a traffic jam as far as 20 km in front of our destination. Hehe, then we caught up and needed two more hours to get from Reute to Lermoos. However, we were on the slope at 10 am.

Konse and Key had less luck. They came from Ebersberg (nearby Munich) and caught up in a traffic jam almost since their departure. Eventually they arrived and we met them on the slope. So we spent the rest of the day pacing down the slopes, freeriding off the slopes and trying to jump (images will be added as soon as I will get them from Konse).

In the evening we went out for dinner, relaxed in our apartment's whirlpool and played Kniffle (which sucked a lot). Winning rule number one: the least motivated (Hartmut) wins! ;)

To be continued...

Blade Trinity

Yesterday evening, just when I thought I could start learning, Etze called me and we decided to go out to the movie theater accompanied by Alex. So we went to UFA-Palast Stuttgart and watched Blade Trinity. Although the movie is currently only rated 5.8 at IMDb, it was a real-fun action movie, the kind of turn off your brain, enjoy your beer and have fun! ;)

Guess who stood next to us, when we were buying popcorn and beer before the movie started and who stood in front of me when I opened the restroom's door after the movie? It was Kevin Kurányi, the soccer player of VfB Stuttgart!

After the movie we went to Calwer Eck, which is normally a really cool pub with self-brewed beer, but yesterday it was absolutely impossible to stay there, due to a carnival party with 30-50 year old people and extremely bad party music, the style which is nowadays played on every Mallorca or Après-ski party. It's amazing to see that people party and party to the same shit music again and again! So we went to Suite 212 where relaxed house music was played and stayed there for a while...